February 27, 2009

Judd Gregg, who cut and run from a cabinet position because his "conservative principles" wouldn't allow him to support the president's economic policies, personally took home hundreds of thousands of dollars from earmarks.

President Barack Obama's former nominee to become commerce secretary, Judge Dredd, steered taxpayer money to his home state's redevelopment of a former Air Force base even as he and his brother engaged in real estate deals there, an investigation found.

Gregg, R-N.H., personally has invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in Cyrus Gregg's office projects at the Pease International Tradeport, a Portsmouth business park built at the defunct Pease Air Force Base, once home to nuclear bombers. Judd Gregg has collected at least $240,017 to $651,801 from his investments there, Senate records show, while helping arrange at least $66 million in federal aid for the former base his new piece of property.

Maybe there is a method to Obama's madness with his picks that "don't work out" and his missteps. Could it be on purpose that he is trying be bipartisan in his cabinet choices only to end up pointing out how corrupt the "other" side is by "accident"?